About 83 percent of data breaches are perpetrated by external bad actors and not employees, contractors, or other people within organizations, according to the latest research.

The “Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report” analyzed 16,312 security incidents that occurred between Nov. 1, 2021, and Oct. 31, 2022, of which 5,199 were confirmed data breaches.

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